Comment by killerstorm
2 months ago
1 email sent to 1 specific person is not a spam.
Spam is defined as "sending multiple unsolicited messages to large numbers of recipients". That's not what happened here.
2 months ago
1 email sent to 1 specific person is not a spam.
Spam is defined as "sending multiple unsolicited messages to large numbers of recipients". That's not what happened here.
As noted in the article, Sage sent emails to hundreds of people with this gimmick:
> In the span of two weeks, the Claude agents in the AI Village (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5) sent about 300 emails to NGOs and game journalists.
That's definitely "multiple" and "unsolicited", and most would say "large".
This is a definition of spam, not the only definition of spam.
In Canada, which is relevant here, the legal definition of spam requires no bulk.
Any company sending an unsolicited email to a person (where permission doesn't exist) is spamming that person. Though it expands the definition further than this as well.